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Re: Habemus Papam

So um if you are not catholic what does it matter to you?

The Pope in his previous life fought against the President of Argentine to prevent same sex marriage and lost. So he knows that more and more the church that ruled the planet is less and less relevant.

So then why the flagellation and gnashing of teeth?

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Re: Habemus Papam

Originally Posted by JayHawk

So um if you are not catholic what does it matter to you?

The Pope in his previous life fought against the President of Argentine to prevent same sex marriage and lost. So he knows that more and more the church that ruled the planet is less and less relevant.

So then why the flagellation and gnashing of teeth?

Probably because it is not reasonable to expect they will count themselves out for the long term. To these people, the Magna Carta is only a "temporary setback."

Re: Habemus Papam

I, personally, have not seen anything bad about the Pope, until now. I know there will be some who do not believe anything from Alternet, so, I'm posting this to let the forum be the judge of the article. The anti will just have to wait.

The New Pope's Disturbing Past -- Revealing Francis's Ties to Abduction of Priests
Expert Horacio Verbitsky exposes the new pope's questionable history.

March 14, 2013 |

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: For more on the new pope, we turn now to one of Argentina’s leading investigative journalists, Horacio Verbitsky, who has written extensively about the career of Cardinal Bergoglio and his actions during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. During that time, up to 30,000 people were kidnapped and killed. A 2005 lawsuit accused Jorge Bergoglio of being connected to the 1976 kidnappings of two Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics. The lawsuit was filed after the publication of Verbitsky’s book, The Silence: From Paul VI to Bergoglio: The Secret Relations Between the Church and the ESMA. ESMA refers to the former navy school that was turned into a detention center where people were tortured by the military dictatorship. The new pope has denied the charges. He twice invoked his right under Argentine law to refuse to appear in open court to testify about the allegations. When he eventually did testify in 2010, human rights activists characterized his answers as evasive.

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Re: Habemus Papam

Re: Habemus Papam

He is not an impressive choice. His exaggerated concern for the "needy" without seeing that an important cause of poverty in Catholic countries is the Church's prohibition of birth control, does not bode well. Benedict spoke out in favor of environmental concerns, without being able to see that ultimately all environmental problems are population problems. Sadly, the Catholic Church lacks a valid moral compass, or perhaps just doesn't use it.